Epic win

Sort of win

Fearless/oblivious Toddler

caught up to a couple of cycle cops this morning as I got to the junction by bank.

we both head along poultry onto cheapside and are waiting at the lights outside st pauls.

between us and a full 3 feet past the ASL and encroaching on the dotted lines of the ped crossing is a tfl-stickered private hire cab.

cops give him benefit of the doubt given it looks like he got caught out by a signal change to be so far ahead of the line.

lights change but he's slow pulling away, I look in his window and see he's holding his blackberry.

I say in a very upbeat calm voice to myself 'come on mate, get off your phone'

copper hears me, looks in passenger window. bellows at the driver "You! pull over. RIGHT THERE!" and points at the far side of the junction.

cue me riding off laughing like a loon as the copper continues to shout at the cabbie as he pulls over.

#win

well done HatBread. the amount of times you see drivers texting whilst driving. ive almost been knocked over so many times by drivers swerving because they were looking at a phone.

good work!

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Snitches get stitches

^from laughing too hard.

ha!

I got cut up by a bloke on his phone on the hipster highway. It must have been during the winter cos it was dark, and I could clearly see the glow of his phone as he was texting. It was at the end of a particularly stressful day at work and I snapped. I banged on his window and waited for him to wind it down before I completely lost it and ended up yelling in his face and giving him a lot of jabby pointy finger.
I don't know how I got away with it, 'cos he was way bigger than me, but I didn't let him get a word in. It was only when I was riding away that I realised how much I'd been needing to shout at someone. The rest of my commute was in a zen-like state of complete calm.

...It must have been during the winter cos it was dark...

Was your commute six months ago?

I got shunted by a bmw driver texting. actually felt his bumper against my right heel on every upstroke.

I turned around to see what was rubbing up my ankle and saw him driving one handed, him looking into his phone on his lap. His pasenger then made a gester saying "look where you're going"

I waited till he looked where he was going then stopped in his path at the lights and told the cunt what he did and what he was.

He just shouted at me some nonsense, I was so angry I had to leave.

I love these fucking cunts who are 100% in the wrong who then feel the need to shout at you.
I was following a rather large lady in a bike lane last night and some fat tosser ambled into the path from between two cars, on his phone, not looking - usual story.
She is going so slow she just bumps into him and puts her foot down as they collide.
I calmly sail past and say "you twat" to him.

At this point he goes mental and starts chasing me running like only a fat man can - i.e. not very far.
When I was sure the lights ahead were green and he was approaching the throws of a cardiac arrest after his first exercise in a decade, I may have shouted some abuse back at him, safe in the knowledge that he wasn't going to catch me.

Buy WHY? WTF is wrong with these people? You are demonstrably a twat and you know it. You just knocked some innocent heifer off her bike and it was 100% your fault.
How is running after me and then presumably assaulting me if you caught up, going to make you less of a twat?

Bizarre.

It's probably more that you weren't involved in the situation but gave your 2p regardless?

For example: Imagine you tripped and fell and someone touted "clumsy cunt" in your direction.

Yes, he should possibly have been paying more attention. No, you shouldn't call him a twat.

I'm glad cyclists are managing to rid ourselves of the "high and mighty" stigma, sigh.

epic name: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/17/el-brad-pitt-arrested-mexico

I know, I know, but I have such a fantastic view from my high horse....

In my defence, I was slightly involved in that he nearly took me out too.

can't believe this is not a repost but I don't want to search for it further... sorry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ

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Why not? It's been almost everywhere else for just over a week so why not here

Why not? It's been almost everywhere else for just over a week so why not here

hehe, I have not been here so much & I just saw it in a french news paper on line...

yeah even without finding it thru the search I suppose the chances of it not being here were ridiculously low...

my bad

Was your commute six months ago?

Funnily enough, it's the same commute every day, but magically it gets gradually lighter and darker.
Must be something to do with magnets.

Funnily enough, it's the same commute every day, but magically it gets gradually lighter and darker.
Must be something to do with *MAGNERS *(?).

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Mark Rylance - 2011 Tony Awards acceptance speech - YouTube

YouTube - ‪Mark Rylance - 2008 Tony Awards acceptance speech‬‏

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saw that in the toilets for the pub at Easts.

http://vimeo.com/24987120

not overly environmentaly green but hey

I think Mark Rylance might be my new hero!

Turns out he's quoting the poetry of one Louis Jenkins. Just been trying to buy one of his books online Before You Know It: Prose Poems 1970-2005.... bit tricky to get hold of, so on the offchance that anyone has a copy they'd like to lend / sell me I'd be very interested!